The report was produced by NCI in partnership with CDC. The authors used incidence and follow-up data from NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program to estimate annual cancer prevalence ? the number of people living following a diagnosis of cancer ? and trends in cancer survivorship.
The data show that:
①64 percent of adults whose cancer is diagnosed today can expect to be living in five years; ②Breast cancer survivors make up the largest group of cancer survivors (22 percent) followed by prostate cancer survivors (17 percent) and colorectal cancer survivors (11 percent); ③The majority (61 percent) of cancer survivors are aged 65 and older; ④An estimated one of every six people over age 65 is a cancer survivor; ⑤Seventy-nine percent of childhood cancer survivors will be living five years after diagnosis and nearly 75 percent will be living 10 years following diagnosis.